XYLOPHILUS, 181 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac and Teapa (H. H. Smith); Guatemata, Cahabon, San Ger6- 
nimo, Zapote (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui and David (Champion). 
Var, The prothorax and elytra piceous-brown, the latter with the base testaceous (9 ). 
Hab. Guatemata, Cahabon (Champion). 
Var, The prothorax piceous-brown; the median fascia of the elytra very broad and connected with a large 
triangular scutellar patch (¢). 
Hab. Panama, Tolé (Champion). 
Numerous examples of both sexes of the type, a single worn example of each variety. 
Apparently a widely-distributed and not uncommon species in Central America. 
Allied to X. cinctipennis, but much smaller and much less elongate; the antenne are 
entirely testaceous, and exhibit similar sexual differences, the apical joint, however, is 
proportionately stouter in the male; the head is similarly shaped, and the eyes are very 
hairy and very coarsely granulated; the thorax is broader than long; the elytra are 
much shorter and a little rounded at the sides, and have a similar median fascia; the 
hind femora are incrassate in both sexes; the anterior tibie in the male are similarly 
shaped. In an immature female example from San Gerénimo the head is fusco- 
testaceous and scarcely darker in colour than the thorax. 
22. Xylophilus sexmaculatus. (Tab. VIII. fig. 16, 3.) 
Moderately elongate, rather broad, shining, clothed with fine decumbent pubescence; the head black; the 
prothorax reddish-testaceous; the scutellum piceous; the elytra testaceous, with a black spot at the 
shoulders and two others at the middle (an oblong one on the centre of the disc and an oblique one 
between this and the lateral margin) and a narrow infuscate fascia immediately before the apex. Head 
moderately large, finely and somewhat closely punctured; eyes ( ¢) hairy, rather large, somewhat widely 
separated, not very coarsely granulated, deeply emarginate, the head somewhat broadly extended on 
either side behind them and with rather prominent hind angles ; palpi testaceous ; antennz ( ¢ ) testaceous, 
long and slender, joint 2 short and globose, shorter than 3, 3-10 differing very little in length but 
gradually becoming a little stouter, rather elongate, 11 twice as long as, and stouter than, 10, ovate, acumi- 
nate; prothorax broader than long, narrower than the head, obsoletely canaliculate, the sides very 
gradually converging from the base, rounded in front, the base grooved within in the middle, the surface 
densely and somewhat coarsely punctured (more closely and more coarsely so than the head); elytra 
rather broad, much wider than the prothorax, widest at the middle, with an oblique depression extending 
from the shoulders downwards, the suture also depressed at the base, the sides almost straight in front, 
the surface closely and somewhat coarsely punctured (the punctuation less dense but not coarser than that 
of the prothorax); legs( ¢) entirely testaceous, rather long and slender, the hind femora slightly clavate, 
the anterior tibie abruptly bent inwards at the middle and furnished with a sharp tooth on the inner 
side at the apex, the four hinder tibize very slightly sinuous. 
Length 2 millim. (<¢.) 
Hab. Guatemata, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Champion). 
One male example. This is one of several species of Xylophilus of which specimens 
were obtained by myself in the vicinity of the coffee-estate of “Las Nubes,” on the 
Pacific slope. In X. sewmaculatus the hind femora are not excavate on their inner 
